Muffler.



PATBNTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

A. F. LUNGREN.

MUFFLER.

' ARTHUR F. LUNGREN, or GOWRIE, IOWA.

MUFFLER- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application filed January 27, 1906. Serial No. 298.547.

To a, whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR F. LUNGREN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gowrie, in the county of Webster and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Mufiier, of which the following is a specification. 1

My object is to provide a simple, neat, and convenient muffler specially adapted to be applied around a persons neck like a collar and securely fastened and also to allow its depending ends to be connected like a vest or coat to cover and protect the wearers chest from cold.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an outside face view that shows the peculiar shape of the device and the depending ends quilted by cross-lines of stitching. Fig. 2 shows the inside of the structure and parts of the lining removed to disclose stays and reinforcing-stiifenings fixed in the ends of the collar. Fig. 3 is a perspective view that shows the complete muffler in position it will assume when placed around the neck of a person.

The letters a andb designate woven textile fabric, preferably silk, complete in one piece. The part a is a strip that has parallel edges and is wide enough and long enough for making a-collor adapted to be worn around a persons neck. The parts I) extend downward and outward at an angle from the ends of the part a and are wider at their lower ends than at their tops and adapted to serve as chestprotectors integral with the collar.

The parts 0 and d shown in Fig. 2 correspond in shape and size with the parts a and b in Fig. 1 and are connected therewith at their edges as required to serve as a fixed lining.

To one end of the collar and the outer edge of the left depending part is fixed a lapel f, adapted to be overlaid by the edge portion of the right depending part, as shown in Fig. 3. To the outer ends of the collar portion of the device are fixed stays g, whalebone or the like, as required to stiffen the free edges of the ends of the collar, and at some distance from the ends of the collar are fixed pieces of canvas or other suitable stiifening material m, that will normally retain the collar in an u right position when around a persons nec r. When the muifler is made of heavy material, thehstiffening material may be dispensed wit Spring-buttons n are fixed to the inside of one edge portion of the device, as shown in Fig. 1, and spring-clasps r to the inside of the edge, as shown in Fig. 2, in such a manner that the muflier can be readily buttoned on a person as required to be worn and readily unbuttoned and taken off.

It is obvious common buttons and buttonholes, hooks and eyes, or other suitable fastening devices may be used. It is also obvious the device may vary in size and material as required to suit persons of diflerent size and to vary in cost of production.

Having thus set forth the purpose of my invention and the manner of its construction and use, its convenience and practical use and advantages may be readily understood.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A muffler composed of a collar of equal width from end to end, a chest-protector projecting downward from each end of the collar, a lapel fixed to one end of the collar and the edge of the chest-protector and fastening devices on the ends of the collar and edges of the chest-protector, to be used as set forth.

2. A muffler composed of a collar of equal width from end to end, a chest-protector proj ecting downward from each end of the collar, a lapel fixed to one end of the collar and the edge of the chest-protector, stiffening material in the ends of the collar and top portions of the chest-protectors and fastening devices on the ends of the collar and edges of the chest-protectors, to be used as set forth.

ARTHUR F. LUNGREN.

Witnesses:

O. E. LUNGREN, H. H. HENNINesoN. 

